On Saturday, 20 August 2016 01:01:39 UTC+2, Michael Jones wrote:
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> …instead it means “assign the value ⁻3 to x”, where negative 3 is a single 
> idea, not two as in (Negate 3). The raised minus sign is from Kenneth 
> Iverson, who used it in APL to make the point that the ‘⁻’ and ‘-‘ have 
> entirely different meanings.
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> Thanks for bringing up Iverson, Michael. It got me to find an HP 15C app 
for my Android phone I am quite willing to pay the unreasonable tab for. 
Just shows that one can get inspiration in the oddest places.

Lucio.

PS: And APL is not bad on UBUNTU, either, but there really is no scope for 
it, that I can find :-(. And the keyboard is a definite issue.

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